The Mask Of Evil

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1. The Mask ‘Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes.’ ‘O no, my dear, you make so bold To find […]...
2. We Wear the Mask We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, This debt we pay […]...
3. O Make Me A Mask O make me a mask and a wall to shut from your spies Of the sharp, enamelled eyes and the […]...
4. The Evil Seekers We are born with luck Which is to say with gold in our mouth. As new and smooth as a […]...
5. Good and Evil XXII And one of the elders of the city said, “Speak to us of Good and Evil.” And he answered: Of […]...
6. Sonnet XX: An Evil Spirit An evil spirit, your beauty haunts me still, Wherewith, alas, I have been long possest, Which ceaseth not to tempt […]...
7. Idea XX: An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still, Wherewith, alas, I have been long possess’d, Which ceaseth not to tempt […]...
8. Aztec Mask I wanted a man’s face looking into the jaws and throat Of life With something proud on his face, so […]...
9. Out from Behind this Mask 1 OUT from behind this bending, rough-cut Mask, (All straighter, liker Masks rejected-this preferr’d,) This common curtain of the face, […]...
10. An Opera House Within the gold square of the proscenium arch, A curtain of orange velvet hangs in stiff folds, Its tassels jarring […]...
11. Reflections of caernarvon i I shall die yearning A hand Reaching out to A face that isn’t there A face Seeking a hand […]...
12. Mask Fling your red scarf faster and faster, dancer. It is summer and the sun loves a million green leaves, masses […]...
13. The Legend of Evil I This is the sorrowful story Told when the twilight fails And the monkeys walk together Holding their neighbours’ tails: […]...
14. A Hero Three times I had the lust to kill, To clutch a throat so young and fair, And squeeze with all […]...
15. The Evil Eye It comes oozing Out of flowers at night, It comes out of the rain If a snake looks skyward, It […]...
16. Against Evil Company Why should I join with those in Play, In whom I’ve no delight, Who curse and swear, but never pray, […]...
17. He Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair, And dream about the great and their pride; They have spoken against you […]...
18. SPLEEN I’M like some king in whose corrupted veins Flows agиd blood; who rules a land of rains; Who, young in […]...
19. The Demiurge's Laugh It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon’s trail, Though I […]...
20. Demon A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand Over the demon’s mouth sometimes… D. H. Lawrence […]...
21. The Other Under my bowels, yellow with smoke, It waits. Under my eyes, those milk bunnies, It waits. It is waiting. It […]...
22. The Dark House Where a faint light shines alone, Dwells a Demon I have known. Most of you had better say “The Dark […]...
23. Thinking Of A Friend At Night In this evil year, autumn comes early… I walk by night in the field, alone, the rain clatters, The wind […]...
24. Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window What charm is yours, you faded old-world tapestries, Of outworn, childish mysteries, Vague pageants woven on a web of dream! […]...
25. The Demon In Me The demon in me’s not dead, He’s living, and well. In the body as in a hold, In the self […]...
26. You've seen Balloons set Haven't You? You’ve seen Balloons set Haven’t You? So stately they ascend It is as Swans discarded You, For Duties Diamond Their […]...
27. The Seeing Eye The small dogs look at the big dogs; They observe unwieldy dimensions And curious imperfections of odor. Here is the […]...
28. Museum Piece The good gray guardians of art Patrol the halls on spongy shoes, Impartially protective, though Perhaps suspicious of Toulouse. Here […]...
29. I Sit and Look Out I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear […]...
30. The Laboratory ANCIEN REGIME I Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly, May gaze through these faint smokes curling whitely, As […]...
31. The Everlasting Battle WHEN in my shadowy hours I pierce the hidden heart of hopes and fears, They change into immortal joys or […]...
32. The Times Table More than halfway up the pass Was a spring with a broken drinking glass, And whether the farmer drank or […]...
33. The Refugees In the shabby train no seat is vacant. The child in the ripped mask Sprawls undisturbed in the waste Of […]...
34. The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top Blood blood and torn grass Had marked the rise of his agony […]...
35. The Violent Space (Or When Your Sister Sleeps Around For Money) Exchange in greed the ungraceful signs. Thrust The thick notes between green apple breasts. Then the shadow of the devil […]...
36. An Epicure Should you preserve white mice in honey Don’t use imported ones from China, For though they cost you less in […]...
37. Two Words ‘God’ is composed of letters three, But if you put an ‘l’ Before the last it seems to me A […]...
38. The Encounter All the while they were talking the new morality Her eyes explored me. And when I rose to go Her […]...
39. A Certain Kind of Holy Men Not every wino is a Holy Man. Oh, but some of them are. I love those who’ve learned To sit […]...
40. De Profundis Oh why is heaven built so far, Oh why is earth set so remote? I cannot reach the nearest star […]...